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Originally Posted by jonnyc
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"As I said earlier my dad got this PO8 at a German arms factory at the end of the war in Europe. He had some interesting stories that some may be interested in.
Just after finding the guns at the factory his company captured a German SS officer. He was disarmed and my dad through all of the German weapons in a big pile to be destroyed later. He did keep the SS officer's Luger holster to have for his new found PO8. I have that holster today. The SS officer's name is scratched in the leather and it reads "S/S Reisling".
During the war in Europe my dad told me that after a battle with the Germans, the GI's (attending to the wounded and dead) would often find Lugers laying around on the ground, and a lot of the GI's had their 1911's missing. Apparently the front line Germans didn't like the Lugers because they were very prone to jamming when dirty. They would take the 1911's from the dead and wounded GI's but they would leave the holster's behind. The German soldiers were afraid of the SS officers and didn't want them to see that they had a 1911 so they used their Luger holsters that had a flap or lid so no one would see what they had. The problem was that the 1911 is a much larger gun than the luger and they would have to jam it into the luger holster. When it cam time to use the 1911 they needed both hands and lots of tugging to get it out of the holster. Sometimes making it totally unusable. Go figure.
He told me that some of the American officers used the luger. They like it because it was a bit more accurate than the 1911. Some of them just used the Lugers to taunt the German prisoners. The 1911 however was the weapon of choice for the front line GI's. It wasn't particularly accurate but apparently it didn't need to be because if somebody got hit on any part of their body it would at least knock them over and incapacitate them, where the Luger load (as long as it didn't hit a vital organ) would just pass through and not necessarily knock you down. The Germans thought the Luger was better for tapping a man or woman in the back of the head so they could get 2 with only one shot. (My dad's theory. He didn't have much regard, to say the least, for SS troops )"
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I'm sorry, but this also sound like BS.
By the way, a Reisling is a grape used in the fine German white wines.
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